Fuller v. Quire’s Empirical Analysis
916 F.2d 358 · 1990
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Meiboom v. Watson (2000), United States v. R.W. Meyer, Inc. (1991)
19 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Phillips v. Negley · Hopper v. Euclid Manor Nursing Home, Inc. · Stradley v. Cortez · Rinieri v. News Syndicate Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonably well grounded common-law exception to the final-judgment rule where the district court acts without the power to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to decide the jurisdictional issue, it is necessary to decide the appeal on its merits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Rule 60(b)(1) authorizes the trial court to grant relief for “mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect,” but limits the exercise of that power to one year. Rule 60(b)(6) permits the court to grant relief from a judgment for “any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.” There is no time limit on the exercise of the court’s power under Rule 60(b)(6), except that the motion for relief from the judgment must be made “within a reasonable time.” This court has held that 60(b)(6) is to be used “only in exceptional or extraordinary circumstances which are not addressed by the first five numbered clauses of the Rule.” Hopper v. Euclid Manor Nursing Home, 867 F.2d 291, 294 (6th Cir. 1989). Rule 60(b)(6) specifically states that the grounds under 60(b)(6) are “other” reasons justifying relief. This can mean nothing less than reasons not stated in 60(b)(1) and the other exceptions. A second reason why the plain language of the statute indicates that the exceptions must be mutually exclusive is that the time limitation placed upon the four discrete grounds stated in Rule 60(b)(1) would otherwise be rendered nugatory by action of 60(b)(6), which is without time limit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bartell v. Zabawa
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.